St. Helena Bound

St. Helena is a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 1950km off the coast of Angola. Until now, the only way to reach the island is by the once a month Royal Mail Ship, RMS St. Helena, that runs between Cape Town, South Africa and Ascension Island, another remote Atlantic island. That is all about to change as an airport is due to open on St. Helena so we are going to take the last boat to St. Helena!



RMS St. Helena at Jamestown, St. Helena



Our tickets to board RMS St. Helena arrived in a mail sack

Our route is flying from Ottawa to London, UK where we will spend some time with Zoe's family. We then catch an RAF plane from Brize Norton to Ascension Island. The RAF plane, by the way, is en route to the Falkland Islands. We catch the RMS, as it is affectionately known, at Ascension Island for the 2 day boat trip to St. Helena. We will spend a few days on St. Helena before re-boarding the RMS for a 5 day boat ride to Cape Town. We are hiking and sight-seeing in South Africa for a week before flying back to Ottawa via Dubai!!



Ascension Island and St. Helena in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean